The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-08-20


NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
THE British Cabinet is still worried as to
what course to pursue with the Irish Ma
tionalists.
THE Colorado militia are said to be pre-
pairing to fight the renegade Ute Indians
into submission.
THE Order of Foresters, in session at Chi
cago, is convulsed over the question of
color in membership.
THE English Government does not seem
to be able to make up its mind as to the adj
visibility of proclaiming the Irish Ma
tional League.
THE French press advises the closest
possible alliance between France and Rus
STA, because of the growing friendship be-
tween Germany and Italy.
IT was reported at Rustchuk on the 18th
that Prince Ferdinand had abandoned tho
Journey to Bulgaria in consequence of Tur-
keys threat to occupy Bulgaria.
TIE King and Queen of Saxony, on the
18th, opened the international bakery ex-
hibition at Dresden. America is largely
represented among the exhibits.
PLEURo.PNEUMoNIA has been discovered
n a~Hc in
Over a dozen cases now existing. Quaran-
tine will be instituted Immediately.
THE Union Labor convention at Roches.
ter, N. Y, on the 18th, declared itself on
the tariff and pauper immigration, nomi-
Aated State ticket and adjourned.
THE French Patriotic League is arousing
strong anti-German feeling throughout
France, and hundreds of new names are
added to the membership rolls daily.
The President gave a reception on the
18th in the East room to three hundred
ladies and children from the Methodist
Episcopal Sunday school at Easton, Md.
THE local committee on entertainment of
The foreign guests to the Mexican congress,
which assemblies in Washington Septem-
Der 5, has arranged an elaborate pro-
gramme, including an excursion to Wat
kins Glen and Niagara Falls.
COMPLETE returns of the Texas election,
received up to the night of the 10th, from
'143 counties, show a majority of 83,16l
against State prohibition. Twenty-three
counties show Prohibition majorites and
12O counties show anti majorities.
ExMAYoR WHEATON, OF Detroit, Mich,
has begun three actions for damages for
$40, 900 against R. o. Allen, Andrew Will
liams and w. N. Winfield, his alleged as
sailants, when he was whipped on the
charge of having insulted Mrs. Allen.
A MEETING of the Cabinet was held at
the White House on the 18th. 1t was at,
tended by Secretaries Bayard, Tairchild,
Whitney and Lamar. The financial situa-
tion and the Canadian fisheries question
were the principal subjects of discussion.
A SHELL was accidentally exploded in
the fort at Waxholm, Sweden, COM
manding approach to Stockholm in the
Gulf of Bothnia, on the 18th. Nineteen
soldiers were killed on the spot and many
others, including three officers, were
wounded.
OSCAR j. HARVEY, the forger, has been
put to work in the Albany penitentiary
under John l. West, the colored clerk in
the General Land Office, convicted of an
attempted criminal assault. West is boss
of the chair-making establishment in the
penitentiary.
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GREAT excitement prevails in Elkhart,
Ind, and vicinity over a disease that is de-
clared to be pleuro- pneumonia. Several
animals have died, and an examination of
their lungs indicates pleuro. The State
authorities have been telegraphed to visit
the locality Immediately.
THE steamship Australia arrived at San
Francisco from Honolulu on the 10th,
bringing advices from that kingdom down
to Augusta. No disturbances of any char
acter reported. The new ministry are in
complete control and the chief interest
ceters in the first election under the new
constitution.
PROBABLY the largest amount ever paid
to one pensioner at one payment by any
agency in the country was involved in a
case which was completed few days ago.
The sum of S12,963 was awarded to Ed.
mund Murrow, who during the war was a
member of Co. E, Sixty .ninth Pennsyl-
Vania volunteers.
IT is not impossible that the Rev. Myron
Reed, of Denver, Col, may be selected by
the congregation of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, as the successor of the late Mr..
Beecher Mr., Reed formerly preached in
indianapolis. He is fifty years of age and
quite as liberal in his views as the late
pastor of Plymouth.
On the night of the 9th gale swept over
Milwaukee, Wis, the wind blowing at the
rate of a mile a minute. The main build
ing and several minor structures on the
State fair grounds at Cold Spring Park
were completely wrecked. Six men who
were in them miraculously escaped injury.
A heavy rain fell, lasting an hour.
UNITED STATES SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER